A Dark Eye

In the parking lot where I waited alone

A white bird sat sleeping on a broken payphone

And there came a black beetle dragging off a green fly

Underneath a parked car and then out of sight

And I felt a dark eye turn its gaze upon me

As if the earth, the earth could see

A dark eye, a dark eye

A dark eye fell on me

In the parking lot where a prairie once grew

And through the tall grass the buffalo flew

I heard something crying way down below

Where the sewer lines snake around Indian bones

In that parking lot, cars bake in the sun

And somewhere down the road, the pop of a gun

I watched a red ant crawl up my shin

And I felt so sad until it bit my skin

A dark eye, a dark eye

A dark eye fell on me